Summary: Shot in his trademark "guerilla video" style, each episode is filled with observations that bridge comedy and controversy and places Michael Moore in the middle of today's hot topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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Summary: "Before Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah, and "Doonesbury," there was Art Buchwald. For more than fifty years, from 1950 to 2006, his Pulitzer Prize-winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a popular player in the Washington of Ethel and Ted Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, and Katharine Graham. Dean Acheson, former U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUCHWALD, ART HILSummary: A news-parody compendium of world non-facts features maps and incorrect statistics for all of the world's independent nations, from Afghanistan to the Ukraine, and includes the world's rejected flag designs and the planet's most annoying handicrafts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.08 DIKGutfeld, Greg
Summary: "Greg Gutfeld is back with a hilarious essay collection about how he destroyed the mainstream late night landscape of heavyweights and became host of the #1 late night show in all of television. With his signature wit and whip-smart humor, Greg reveals never-before-told stories of his upbringing and early career, what it's like going head-to-head with the liberal media, and what it took to flip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUTFELD, GREG GUTGardner, Gerald C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 GARColbert, Stephen
Summary: The host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" offers his opinions, untarnished by facts or research, on important issues in modern American society, including higher education, pets, religion, sports, sex, and the Hollywood agenda.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 818.602 ColbertSummary: From the host of television's comedy-punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. This book contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast, his most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Stephen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.602 COLLeary, Denis
Summary: Denis Leary refutes the current highly partisan Right Wing Nutjob versus Left Wing Snowflake approach to American politics—where you’re either one or the other, with no gray areas in between. Leading a new protest movement called Gray Lives Matter, he takes equal opportunity aim at the screaming heads we see arguing every night on CNN (the Clinton News Network) and Fox’s Fair and Balanced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 LEAFord, Gerald R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbor House 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.925 FORFranken, Al.
Summary: Satirist Al Franken examines the political right, and uses their own words against them, taking on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 324 FRAChadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.4 CHALitt, David
Summary: "A different kind of White House memoir, presidential speechwriter David Litt's comic account of his years spent working with Barack Obama and his reflection on Obama's legacy in the age of Trump. Like many twentysomethings, David Litt frequently embarrassed himself in front of his boss's boss. Unlike many twentysomethings, Litt's boss's boss was President Obama. At age twenty-four, Litt became...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LITT, DAVID LITBehar, Joy
Summary: "The brilliant and outspoken star of The View--and one of our most beloved comedians--hits the most unpopular president ever elected where it hurts (and makes us laugh and cheer) in this hilarious alphabetical guide to everything that's wrong with the "Orange One," Donald Trump. Put down the Valium, get out of bed: Joy Behar is here to save you from self-harm as she hot-walks you through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 BEHGutfeld, Greg.
Summary: The Fox News star outlines his rules and tricks for winning any argument against a liberal by using patience, research, humor, and creative thinking. Revealing the strategies that have helped him keep a steady job for almost three decades. Gutfield gives readers the tools they'll need to argue, influence, and convince their friends, family and foes throughout the 2016 election cycle....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 GUTSummary: Highlights from the Colbert Report television show on Comedy Central, including segments from: The word: truthiness ; Better know a district ; Green screen challenge ; Stephen Jr. - flight of a patriot ; Papa Bear ; Cooking with feminists ; Meta-free-phor-all and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BESBaum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUIvins, Molly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 IVIO'Rourke, P. J.
Summary: "No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Or, as celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard Republican P. J. O'Rourke put it in his endorsement of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton: "America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 OROUdall, Morris K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.925 UDEColbert, Stephen
Summary: In the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! It's high time America was restored to the greatness it never lost! Stephen Colbert single-bookedly attempts to pull the country back from the brink. Covering subjects ranging from healthcare to the economy to food, Stephen gives America the dose of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 818 COLFranken, Al.
Summary: Satirist Al Franken examines the political right, and uses their own words against them, taking on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 324 FrankPerelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph)
Summary: "From October 1948 to October 1953, The New Yorker published humorist S. J. Perelman's "Cloudland Revisited" series: twenty-two reviews of once-popular books and silent films whose expiration dates had passed. All but forgotten even at the time, they were nonetheless part of Perelman's youth and made an indelible mark on him. ln the comic genius's biting satire they live once again: Gertrude...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.52 PERMwai, Melissa H.
Summary: "Learn all about the amazing African American culture of Harlem with this fun-filled nonfiction reader--carefully leveled to help children progress . . . 'Harlem Renaissance' will introduce kids to the exciting lives, music, art and ideas of the African American community of Harlem 100 years ago--and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2024